cutting or hacking wood with a knife; from Dial.English
snagger, a tool for snagging or cutting off snags, that is
branches, knots, etc., Scottish snagger-snee, a large knife, snicker-snee,
sneg,
snag, cut off branches.

noise of boiling water, steam of water in which meat is
boiled, boiled meat, Irish sod, boiled meat (O'Br.); from Norse
soð, broth or water in which meat has been boiled, English
sodden, seethe, sod, Scottish sotter, boil slowly, sottle, noise of
boiling porridge, etc.

a strong and quick pull, the utmost extent of the outstretched
arms, the grass cut by one scythe-stroke, spadh, a
scyth's stroke (Bad.); from Latin spatium. Meyer objects.
If Stokes' theory were right spadh could be from root spa,
pull, span. Cf. English swath.

a wasp, connspeach, for conas-beach, "wrangling or dog
bee", from
beach, bee? The Irish for "wasp" is eircbheach.
connspeach is referred by Stokes (Dict. 302) to *spekâ, Greek
@Gsfc/x; for phonetics cf.
padhadh,
piuthar, also
speir and
speal.